SPANIARD Tommy Robredo showed a little bare-faced cheek before Wimbledon got under way by swapping Centre Court for a centrefold.

The world No.7 posed nude as this month's Cosmopolitan male centrefold for the Everyman Campaign, a charity aimed at helping men improve their ball skills to catch testicular and prostate cancer early. Watch out for ladies pleading their own charity cases with him during the tournament.

Anna's Glas is half-empty

SURELY you are encouraging rain when you have Glastonbury, Royal Ascot and the Wimbledon warm-ups all overlapping.

But Brit Anne Keothavong is hoping to fit in a trip to the music festival one summer. She said: "I'd love to go but I've never had the opportunity." Since she's playing World No.3 Jelena Jankovic in the first round, she might wish she had gone this year.

The 27-year-old has been outspoken in favour of women getting equal prize money and has got her wish this year at Wimbledon.

But asked whether the women should be lobbying to alternate the honour of opening the tournament, she laughed: "We've already asked for a lot - we'll wait a few years before we make some more demands that could completely upset everything."

Gift of Gab

CHANCES are Gabby Logan will probably be wearing something a bit more sensible by the time she is fronting the BBC's Wimbledon highlights programme tonight so enjoy it while it lasts, boys.

Roger Federer seems to be from the Joey Barton school of book reviewers. Revealing sport biographies are generally his reading of choice he said: "I would like to read a proper book too in the future."

Rodd's in a jam

ANDY RODDICK was hoping to check out some gigs in London in his week off between winning at Queen's and starting at Wimbledon - but it didn't quite work out.

Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam had been on the wish-list for the world No.3. However, it turned into a night in with the jim-jams instead.

"I didn't see any bands," he said. "I was talking big. Tuesday came around, I was a little tired so I wimped out a little."